Is Bruno Lage A Good Manager Or Should He Go?

[Lupo]

To me he looks like what he is: a lower league backroom boy used to being guided. His tactics, in-game management and man management appear to be very poor as is our form over the vast majority of his time here. The form stats posted above are diabolical and not many managers survive that.

There seems to be an endless line of excuses offered on his behalf and by the man himself, I'm not sure what he has done to earn such support as he has never made much attempt to endear himself to the fans, he has never felt like one of us. I still think back to the video of his arrival at Molineux when he sauntered about looking pretty disinterested and unimpressed, even messing with his phone at times and his management of the club has mirrored this IMO.

I really do not think he is up to the job. He should have been gone in the summer and I hope he's gone very soon. This squad should not be looking down at the bottom 3, it has the ability to be looking to the European spots.

The team, the club and the fans deserve far better than Lage.

 

[Keef]

Perhaps all the people that love him work in the kitchens at Compton, he raves about how good the food is, well to broken Sasha anyway

 

[Tony Towner]

2 areas of defence are the new team and lack of striker which we've discussed at length on here. The third though is you are supposed to be a supporter so support, an argument which I see as having the depth of a puddle. I guess there are some people that define their fandom by unequivocal positivity irrespective of what's going on

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That's the Martin Wanks argument.

I don't sit there at games booing Lage and calling him a cunt (he'd deserve either, but I don't). I get behind the team. I'm not sure why I'd be supposed to not give an opinion if I hate watching us away from the ground.

I'm an Oasis fan, but Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants is a wank album.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Another current favourite is "you never wanted him in the first place so you want him to fail"

1) No I don't, Internet Points don't count much in my life

2) Not my style to say "told you so"

3) Why would I want Wolves to lose

4) How on earth does saying from day one "this man is blatantly unqualified to manage a Premier League team, what are we doing" devalue your opinion when actually, it turns out that was true

 

[PuntsWolf]

Appears to be some form of correlation with Nuno outs and Bruno ins. Seems people want it to work to be proven right some way.

I wasn’t bothered about Nuno leaving at the time and was defending Bruno to have his chance. He’s had it and it’s not very good. So I want him gone. Some people seem to be clinging to him to succeed for no good reason though.

There are no green shoots of recovery as You have said DW. It’s not like we are getting unlucky. Basically people are expecting it to just go from awful to good. As in “a striker” is just going to flick some magic switch. It pretty much has to otherwise he can’t possibly survive the next two weeks. Surely…

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't remember any concerted Nuno Out movement. Could be wrong though or I just avoid those people.

Consensus on here and with people I know personally was broadly that 2020/21 was shite, we absolutely needed to improve on that, but he had enough credit in the bank to be given the chance.

 

[Tredman]

There were (and still are) quite a few people who were vociferously anti-nuno by the end of the 2020/21 season.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

What I've seen though is false narratives. Like we were always boring to watch. No we weren't.

Lage has served up some of the worst football I have ever seen.

 

[Lupo]

For me Nuno was the first Wolves manager that left the club way too soon. I was gutted when it was announced and still miss the guy to this day. His last season was a weird one behind closed doors that I make very little judgement on, the same season that Villa beat Liverpool 7-2 ffs, that season was not normal.

We apparently sacked Nuno to make us more exciting. Well we're not. We've scored 3 goals in 7 games and hardly ever win, that's shit

 

[Law's Bus]

We apparently sacked Nuno to make us more exciting. Well we're not. We've scored 3 goals in 7 games and hardly ever win, that's shit

Yes, it's right up there in the list of brilliant decisions that turned out really well.

And let's face it, as a club we have quite a long list of those to choose from.

 

[The Bear]

What I've seen though is false narratives. Like we were always boring to watch. No we weren't.

Lage has served up some of the worst football I have ever seen.

I didn't want Nuno out, but we definitely were rubbish to watch in his last season. We were boring and barely attacked. It was a rare thing if we got more than one man in the box at a time.

I often had other fans tell me exactly that and we were the worst team to watch in the league because we were so negative. I always watched without feeling that way particularly because its my team. For the neutral viewer though we got absolutely slated.

 

[prawnking]

For me Nuno was the first Wolves manager that left the club way too soon. I was gutted when it was announced and still miss the guy to this day. His last season was a weird one behind closed doors that I make very little judgement on, the same season that Villa beat Liverpool 7-2 ffs, that season was not normal.

We apparently sacked Nuno to make us more exciting. Well we're not. We've scored 3 goals in 7 games and hardly ever win, that's shit

I have the utmost respect for Nuno as manager and man, but I'm not sure he left too soon. He looked pretty done in by the end, and we were pretty poor. I'm not convinced he could have become a front foot manager for us.

Lage hasn't improved on any of that though, so it's a failure of a change for sure

 

[jd1981]

If you think it was the right time for Nuno to go after 1 poor season then surely you must think Bruno must have been shown the door after last season.
Nuno had proof of an ability to turn things around Bruno doesn’t.
Last season was only a slight improvement if any 5 more points and 3 places higher.

 

[Lupo]

I have the utmost respect for Nuno as manager and man, but I'm not sure he left too soon. He looked pretty done in by the end, and we were pretty poor. I'm not convinced he could have become a front foot manager for us.

Lage hasn't improved on any of that though, so it's a failure of a change for sure

Maybe yeah and things were different but I would have been happy for Nuno to have the chance to show whether it was a blip due to extraordinary circumstances or that he was a busted flush. I don't see what Lage has done for some supporters to keep banging the 'give him more time' drum. He hasn't improved anything and he's made little or no effort to buy into us as a club or a fanbase so for me when things are this shit I owe him nothing

 

[Del Woppio]

We were worse to watch in Nuno's last season than we are under Lage. More likely to win, but it was a rancid watch and we were pretty universally known as the most boring team in the league. I think the pandemic and the Sevilla schooling basically ruined him, and I'm not sure his career will get back on track tbh, which is a devastating shame as he's such a top, top bloke.

The coronation of Lage was proper anger inducing but early doors I was really optimistic, but it's clear now that he's completely out of his depth when you consider the resources available to him and how weirdly he uses them. He needs to go. He may well be a good coach, but as a tactician he's useless, he can't react to anything once the whistle goes, and with each passing week comes across as even more of a prick

 

[prawnking]

If you think it was the right time for Nuno to go after 1 poor season then surely you must think Bruno must have been shown the door after last season.
Nuno had proof of an ability to turn things around Bruno doesn’t.
Last season was only a slight improvement if any 5 more points and 3 places higher.

Oh yeah, agree with all this, although I'll qualify by saying that feeling Nuno had maybe run his course doesn't mean I wanted him to go at the time.

Like most of us I'll wager, I would have been happy for him to be given another season after a bit of a rest, but it wasn't to be.

I tried to give Bruno a fair chance, but he's demonstrably inadequate

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I could maybe understand people still backing him if he was charismatic in any way but he’s just not very likeable. Plus, his football is shit.

It’s just bizarre that some fans still think he’s had a raw deal and deserves a chance (after 45 league games!)

He has no redeeming qualities and the only factor in his favour is that when we finally sack him we will undoubtedly botch his replacement too.

 

[Tredman]

He’s a coward, willing to blame anything and anyone for his own deficiencies. It’s an embarrassment that he was ever appointed, it’s even more shameful that he’s still here.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Final 14 games of every Wolves manager in the last 30 years (league only):

Turner: W6 D3 L5
Taylor: W4 D4 L6
McGhee: W4 D4 L6
Lee: W3 D4 L7
Jones: W4 D5 L5
Hoddle: W6 D5 L3
McCarthy: W3 D4 L7
Solbakken: W3 D2 L9
Saunders: W5 D1 L8
Jackett: W4 D6 L4
Zenga: W4 D4 L6
Lambert: W7 D2 L5
Nuno: W4 D3 L7
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Lage: W1 D5 L8

I’d say I’m pretty patient when it comes to giving managers a chance. I think I only really actively celebrated Hoddle and Saunders leaving out of that list (I despised Saunders from the fist second he was appointed.)

I was slightly distracted when McGhee was sacked as I was about 3 months into my first year at Uni and I was definitely relieved when Jackett/Zenga/Lambert left but not delighted like I was with Hoddle & Saunders.

I will definitely celebrate Lage leaving.